3.2 OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM IN 2019 8 November 2019 At the Ministry of the Interior, Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih attended a session of the Expert Council on Police Law and Powers. 14 November 2019 The representative of the NPM, mag. Jure Markič, attended the session of the working group for drafting amendments to the ZDZdr. 18 November 2019 Between 18 and 19 November 2019, the Ombudsman’s adviser, mag. Uroš Kovačič, attended a workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria, intended for NPM entitled „Working towards harmonised detention standards in the EU – the role of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs)“. The substantive highlights of the workshop included the supervision of treatment and the situation of vulnerable groups of prisoners, and the formation of a systemic arrangement of supervision with regard to preventing torture and inhuman treatment. 20 November 2019 At the MDDSZ, the representative of the NPM, mag. Jure Markič, attended a session of the working group for working with dementia patients in institutional care of the elderly. 20 November 2019 Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih attended an event at the National Assembly commemorating the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 21 November 2019 The representative of the NPM, mag. Jure Markič, attended the session of the working group for drafting amendments to the ZDZdr. 21 November 2019 At the Ombudsman’s head office, Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and the representatives of the NGOs participating in the tasks and powers of the NPM attended training concerning supervision over the use of weapons and other coercive measures and the prevention of torture organised by the representatives of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in cooperation with the Omega Research Foundation and the University of Exeter. 28 November 2019 The representative of the NPM, mag. Jure Markič, attended the session of the working group for drafting amendments to the ZDZdr. 5 December 2019 Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih and the representative of the NPM, mag. Jure Markič, attended a session of the working group for drafting amendments to the ZDZdr. 5 December 2019 At the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih attended a round table entitled „Ten Years of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights“. 88 THE REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA ON IMPLEMENTING THE TASKS OF THE NPM